Bungeoppang
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| Bungeoppang | |
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| Hangul: | |
| Revised Romanization: | bungeoppang / ingeoppang (NK: ringeoppang) |
| McCune-Reischauer: | pungŏ ppang / ingŏ ppang (NK: ringŏ ppang) |
Bungeoppang (lit. “crucian carp cake/bread”) is the name of a Korean fish-shaped pastry. Bungeoppang consists of sweet azuki bean filling known as pat (팥; see red bean paste), which is encased in batter and then toasted in a special appliance that performs like a waffle iron. This appliance is specially molded to create the fish shape of bungeoppang (see Asian carp for the fish's significance in East Asian culture). It is then toasted golden-brown and served.
Bungeoppang is usually sold as a snack by open-air food vendors throughout Korea during the winter season. The vendors sell them in a similar way to Korean eomuk or kamaboko in Japanese. It is usually sold in quantities of four or more. Although the pastry is shaped like a fish, it does not contain any fish or fish products.
There are also bungeoppang-shaped waffles filled with ice cream and pat (sweetened and boiled red beans or azuki beans).
Similar variations also exist:
- Gukhwappang (국화빵, “chrysanthemum cake”) is essentially identical to bungeoppang, only it is a flower-shaped pastry.
- gyeranppang (계란빵, lit. “chicken egg cake”) is shaped like a scallop and usually filled with egg.
In Japan, bungeoppang is known as taiyaki.
[edit] References
- ^ Martin, Samuel E. (1992). A Reference Grammar of Korean, 1st Edition, Rutland and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Publishing, 95. ISBN 0-8048-1887-8. “līnge”
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